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Sheesh there is less than zero reason for me to invest in dividend shares. Since most of them have zero growth example DIVTRX and the appeal of dividend even at a 100k is still... Not getting my attention.

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Sheesh there is less than zero reason for me to invest in dividend shares. Since most of them have zero growth example DIVTRX and the appeal of dividend even at a 100k is still... Not getting my attention.

So for now MAPPSG is still top on my list of potential buys.

So I went and investigated SWIX some more and IMO there is some cause for concern (MAPPSG uses it).

So back in the early 2000s the Top 40 was heavily packed with resource shares (the majority of which are dual listed). So what they did was devise an investment fund/approach that would even things out across sectors...SWIX.

What they did not foresee (read "didn't think through?") was that the rules they put in place to reduce the resource exposure would eventually cause the SWIX top 40 to be dominated by industrial stocks. This I did not know or think of because when I bought into SWIX I saw it as a way of avoiding "top heavy" shares like the classic top 40 has. Well, it's not that.

So atm it is doing very well but you could probably swop it for STXIND and potentially do even better. What I want is a broadly diversified ETF with checks in place to avoid the above mentioned problem ...and that's the CTOP50 for me at this stage. I'm not selling any of my NFSWIX just yet but not making any new investments into it.

As for MAPPSG/P: still very good. But I (and I know I change my mind often ) would rather build it myself:

CTOP50 80%

NFILBI 10%

NFGOVI 10%

...and skip the cash component since that is do e for retirement annuity products (I think)

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More experience people will be able to answer that but personally I don't think that is the primary reason the world markets was down today so something bigger must have triggered it.

Maybe @Hamster knows...

Brexit fear if I had to guess (see you already linked it). I do not bother too much with news of this kind because it causes "panic" and knee jerk reactions.

Combine that with the Rand losing some value (last I check we were at about R15.30 to the USD), the optimism of surviving a downgrade eroding, day to day ANC kark, three consecutive days of shootings in the USA....the world is just not a happy place.

That's my opinion anyway.

Personally I use times like these to stock up on more bond ETFs etc. that can weather the storm a bit better.

The JSE being g down tomorrow for about an hour - that's to recalculate futures. Doesn't affect anything really.

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Nice!!! -> If you go to reports in EasyEquities and export a Google finance sheet then you can import that into your google finance portfolio, its not excel, but it does have a graph and some alternative insightful views

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Nice!!! -> If you go to reports in EasyEquities and export a Google finance sheet then you can import that into your google finance portfolio, its not excel, but it does have a graph and some alternative insightful views

Thank you for the tip

Quoted so I can find it easily in a month or so when there is actual data for me to look at

...but basically, the moment I'm able to move I'm done with them. I'll stick around for single shares, possibly for their international shares (if that ever happens) and speculating, but anything more substantial and important I'm moving away.